カテゴリー: Sinkholes
A large sinkhole opened up outside a hospital in the Thai capital on Wednesday. Social media footage shows power lines being pulled down into the 50-metre-deep hole and vehicles teetering on the edge. Officials said there were no casualties.Suriyachai …
Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre rampFears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in Japan, as rescue workers started building a ramp in…
Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appearedRescue workers in Japan are battling water leaks, gas pipes and unstable ground as they attempt to reach a man whose truck fell into a sink…
Officials say it is too dangerous to send in divers to look for the Indian woman who has now been missing for eight daysThe search for an Indian tourist who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Malaysia’s capital has stalled after being deemed “too risky”.Vi…
Excavator brought in as search continues for woman buried when eight metre hole opened in pavementA woman is missing after falling into an eight metre (26ft) deep sinkhole in the Kuala Lumpur city centre on Friday after the pavement caved in, burying h…
The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central North IslandAn Australian woman has been seriously injured after she fell into a geothermal sinkhole that opened up in a popular tourist village i…